Nicola is finishing her MA this June. Here are some images for you to enjoy of the production of her gate for the final show, starting with the private view on Friday 6th June at UWE Bower Ashton Campus.
Iron Rose
Iron SPIDER!
Beautiful Dragonflies
Pieces of the gate laid out -starting to look like how it’s going to look!
Nicola Welding!
Your grief for what you’ve lost lifts a mirror
up to where you are bravely working.
Expecting the worst, you look, and instead,
here’s the joyful face you’ve been wanting to see.
Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes.
If it were always a fist or always stretched open,
you would be paralysed.
Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding,
the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated
as birdwings.
– Rumi
An installation by Mark Dion.
I was pleased to be working with him on this project.
A single Hawthorn berry because there’s no May Blossom yet!
The 5 elements with Hawthorn on my May Day Altar
I’ve been playing with sacred geometry the last couple of months – I’ve been trying to find a way of explaining it! but of course I can’t – except in the language of maths – which is infinitely beautiful and subtle!
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